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"and what if life is just a collection of unrelated experiences? why does one thing have to meaningfully follow from another?"

"but if, though unjust, i acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. since then, as wise men prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness"

"the prisoner himself knows that he is a prisoner, an outcast, and he knows his place before his superior; but no brands, no fetters will make him forget that he is a human being"

"and what will one not give for freedom? what millionaire, his throat squeezed by a noose, would not give all his millions for one breath of air?"

"man is a creature who gets used to everything, and that, i think, is the best definition of him"

"i must be cruel only to be kind"

i feel like i know how this story is about to end, and i don't like where it's headed

atticus finch might be the greatest father i have ever read about

"the one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience"

"and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words"

"I dont know what I am. I dont know if I am or not. Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he does not know whether he is or not."

"it takes two people to make you, and one people to die. that's how the world is going to end"

amory blaine has the worst love life ever

"Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses"

f. scott fitzgerald had a thing for car crashes huh

jacob elordi is torturing my nigga frank

"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow."

"'Tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy"

"he desires nothing, because he is above desire, because he has everything, because he is sated, because he himself is the artist of his life and he creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim"

i haven't seen a man yearn for his dead wife like this since dr. phibes

"you can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature"

"name one hero who was happy"

my boy patroclus a real street nigga, knocking niggas off over dice